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Fort Hood shooting: gunman among 4 dead. FORT HOOD, Texas - A soldier being treated for mental health issues opened fire Wednesday with a semiautomatic weapon at Fort Hood, killing three people and wounding several others before taking his own life as a military policewoman confronted him, officials said.
As horrific as mass shootings are at military installations, they're rare. Starting with the 2009 spree at Fort Hood by Maj. Nidal Hasan, there have been three in five years. After the Navy Yard shooting, military commanders weighed changing the policy but decided that the 24/7 safety risk of keeping loaded guns everywhere wasn't worth it.